For you Mom, finally
(Book)

First published as Not becoming my mother: New York : Penguin Press, 2009.

"This edition with a new afterword published ... 2010"--t.p. verso.

Includes questions for discussion.

Chronicles the mother-daughter relationship of culinary author Ruth Reichl, now editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, and her late mother, Miriam. Miriam Brudno, who bowed to societal and familial pressure to become a wife and a mother over pursuing a fulfilling career, cheered her daughter on and pointed out that Ruth had an obligation, both to herself and to her mother, to use her life well.